Are we animals?

Question

Were surely not plants, right?
So why don't we eat dogs if pigs have four times the intelligence?
Why don't we eat dead people, there dead so surely they aren't using their meat any more right?
Are we animals?

Answer 1

Yes we are animals. Dogs have become man's best friend, and so they are not treated as food, except in like Japan, or wherever that is where it is a delicacy. lol

Eating the deceased is just wrong. That is another person. We would be disgracing their memory.

Answer 2

We are animals, but few animals eat their own dead. We're seeing an outbreak of mad cow disease because we grind cattle up and feed them back to cattle - it's nasty and unnatural, especially for a ruminant. There's no single direction for the food chain, though. Plenty of animals will eat us if they're given the chance.

Why do we eat pigs and not dogs? No idea - Native Americans did, Asians do. It has more to do with culture than anything else. You mentioned pigs being smarter than dogs - whales and dolphins may be smarter than we are, but we kill them, too.

But yes, we're animals.

Answer 3

Yes.
No.
Some cultures do eat dogs. It's only a western taboo not to, neither right nor wrong.
Some cultures do eat dead people. However, the meat of unhealthy people might not be the best to consume.
Yes.

Answer 4

Yea, what she said.

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To give a complete answer.

Not plants.

Some do eat dogs, and some don't eat pigs.

Cannibalism has been pretty much eradicated, there are individual cases nowadays, but usually for ritualisric reason, not so much nutritional. Eating humans is usually frowned upon by society, and there might be evolutionary advantages in avoiding it; you might not want to die from whatever killed the other guy.

And yes, we are animals.

Answer 5

We don't eat our own dead because it causes encephalitis, a very bad disease, like mad cow but in people. We don't eat dogs because they are social animals like ourselves and the relationship has benefitted both man and dog for 100,000 years. In fact, dog and man are the two most adaptable animals on the planet, being found on virtually every continent. And pigs taste good.

Answer 6

yes, were are animals. However, [i'd like to believe] we have free will, have a form of advanced communication, and have the ability to learn. most species do not have this. some do, however: elephants, chimps, dolphins, other mammals too.

we are very much like them; they do not eat their dead. they care for their young, and are family oriented. there are many other similarities that are quite shocking as well.

and in some countries, they do eat dog. South America and China come to mind

Answer 7

Yes, whether or not a god created us under the classification system humanity has created. If there was a new one that was decided by your outline of your projected facts - even though that's not true everywhere, then sure we're something more special than animals in our own little group.

Answer 8

yeah we are animals for sure, and we do it dogs, Koreans eat dogs. just different cultures eat different things. pigs might be four times as smart as dogs, but they are still not intellegant. we don't eat dead people because that would be canibalism, even other animals dont eat their own species.

Answer 9

Yes, we are animals. Primates to be exact.

We don't eat dogs or dead people because, as a society, we honor these two things - pets are our companions, and dead people are still important to us.

Answer 10

Yes, we are animals. Taboos against cannibalism, however, seem to be very deeply ingrained. Many meat-eating animals refrain from eating their own kind.